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Liangzi Island is a small island on Liangzi Lake in Ezhou, not far from Wuhan. If you encounter rainy and foggy weather, the visibility is not high, and there is a feeling of going to sea.
The first time we saw the scene, when I was waiting for the return trip to board the boat at dusk, I saw the sparkling sunset on the water in the west, which produced the same sense of distance from the "island" as when I came.
At that moment, I felt that it was still necessary to give this island a spiritual place to symbolize "going home", so that the usual ritual behaviors such as going to the island and outlying the island could be a little symbolic. I came up with a lot of words: "fisherman's lights", "lighthouse", "watching the sunset" to find a ceremonial anchor for this project.
In the general plan conception stage, a circular glass skylight is arranged into the parallelogram roof, so as to introduce natural light to the entrances on both sides of the main building.
On the horizontal line of the second floor, a horizontal ribbon window is opened, so that the sight of people on both sides is limited to the ribbon window to see the roof and the lake, and it also deliberately avoids the chaotic island architectural background behind the building. The line of sight is pulled into the distance of the lake by the array of diagonal columns on both sides of the triangular space, and the sky light from the skylights on the roofs at both ends changes its angle and pours into the pure white space at different times of the day.
A circular glass skylight is arranged into the parallelogram roof, so as to introduce natural light to the entrances on both sides of the main building. The pillars supported under the canopy weaken the sense of scale of the supporting structure through the combination of two small columns, and then present it in a lighter structure by clamping the beams.
The project was shortlisted in the 2024 WAF Finalist - Completed Buildings - Transportation category and KUNPENG GLOBAL DESIGN AWARD2024 - MERIT AWARD.
The act of "waiting" itself only requires a perfect shelter from the sun and rain. However, the boarding and outlying island routes, especially facing the test of peak crowds during holidays, require the spatial form and plane flow of the building to be particularly simple, so that people can know at a glance where to wait and where to board and leave.
Therefore, the final scheme is simplified to the space form of a visitor center with waiting greenhouses on both sides and a raised visitor center in the middle.
The sequence of buildings is regulated by the oblique columns of 3m, and the landscape paving of the square also follows the control of this 3m. The roof is covered with silver-gray aluminum-magnesium-manganese plates, and because of the modulus of 3m, the size of the conventional aluminum-magnesium-manganese plate of 330mm was deliberately changed to a customized product of 300mm. The oblique column is covered with an aluminum alloy plate designed into an I-shaped shape, and the stiff texture of the double-row lines in the sun forms a perfect echo with the double-column lines under the canopy.
The visitor center raised in the middle of the canopy, the first floor accommodates the waiting and consumption functions of off-peak passenger flow hours; The towering space on the second floor assumes the symbolic meaning of a "lighthouse" on the water—returning to the ceremonial anchor point at the beginning of the project's creation.
The visitor center raised in the middle of the canopy of the new off-island pier: the first floor accommodates the waiting and consumption functions of off-peak passenger flow hours; The towering space on the second floor assumes the symbolic meaning of a "lighthouse" on the water. The moment you step outside, you feel the vastness of the lake; The moment you step inside, you can feel the profundity of the sky.
Li Tao, the founder & lead architect of UAO Design, a national first-class registered architect, and an entrepreneurial mentor of Wuhan University. His works won four awards in Architizer A+Awards, WAACA2023, WA Design Experiment Award-Prize For Excellence, and were shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2022, Dezeen Awards 2021, 2021WAF, and were published in "World Architecture", "Architectural Details", "World Architecture Herald", "Landscape Design", Hong Kong "Hinge" and other professional journals. Meanwhile, his works have been featured in People's Daily, Phoenix TV, Shanghai Daily and other media. Li Tao was invited to be the teacher of drawing evaluation for 2019 Tongji University Sino Dutch Design Camp, 2020 Hunan University Sino Japanese Design Camp, and 2021 TUD-SZU summer workshop.
